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Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter part of Role Playing:Examples
This lesson plan deals with coral reefs and the recent crisis of coral bleaching. It suggests that students engage in a role-playing debate about modifying human activity to protect reefs. -
Human Impacts on Sharks: Developing an Essay Through Peer-Review on a Discussion Board part of Peer Review:Examples
Through a discussion board, students comment and respond to paper topics on the human impacts on sharks. -
Viewpoint on Causes of Global Warming - An Assignment Using Anonymous Electronic Peer Review With a Dropbox part of Peer Review:Examples
This is an anonymous electronic peer review exercise that utilizes a dropbox, where students detail and support their viewpoint on nonhuman-induced global warming. -
Reducing Volcanic Hazards to People and Property - An Assignment with Electronic Peer Review part of Peer Review:Examples
This electronic peer review exercise has students discuss the major volcanic hazards and risks to humans. -
Post-settlement landscape evolution part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Use valley and slope deposits to reconstruct recent landscape erosion and sedimentation history. -
Aquifers in outcrop part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students describe the hydrogeologic properties of different sedimentary and volcanic rocks. -
Pump Test part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students run a pump test and interpret the results as drawdown curves and hydraulic conductivity measurements. -
Cemetery Geology part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Studying rock types, weathering processes and human history in a cemetery. -
Glacial geology in the field part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students describe and interpret glacial features exposed in gravel pits and outcrops. -
Soils are the pits part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
describing soils in natural exposures -



